iOS CXXXA'I. .TUXCEiE. 



Flowers oyniose or panided, small, 2-braeteolatc at base. — Several Cape 

 species. 



2. PRIONUM, E. Mey. 



Periantli subregular, G-parted ; se^i^ments free, 1-nervcd, 

 eoiK-avo ; 2 lateral of the outer 3, keeled. Stamens G. Ovary 

 nuiiiy-ovuled ; style ; stigmas 3, long, narrow, ])apillosc 

 within. Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. — Kunth, I.e. p. 314. 



P. palmiia, E. Mey. {Juncus serr'atus, Thunb.), the well-known Palmiet, 

 is the type of this genus. It has thick, trunk-like stems or caudices, 4-6 

 feet liijrli, surmounted by a dense crown of large, broad, serrate, channelled 

 leaves, fi-om the centre of which rises a much-branched panicle of flowers. 

 Common in watercourses and marshy ground. 



3. LUZULA, DC. 



Perianth regular, G-parted ; segments connate at the very 

 base, mostly 1-nerved (rarely 3-nerved), widely spreading; outer 

 subcarinate, inner smaller. Stamens 6. * Ovary 1-eelled ; 

 ovules 3, erect ; style 1, sometimes very short ; stigmas 3, 

 filiform, villous. Capsule 1-celled, 3-seeded. — Kunth, I.e. p. 

 29G. 



Tufted perennials, sometimes creeping. Leaves grass-like, mostly flat 

 and tliin, often liaii'y, sheathing at base. Flowers umbelled, cymose or 

 panicled, more or less branched. Flowers as in Juncus. — L. camiyestris, a 

 nearly cosmopolitan species, occurs among Drege's plants (n. 3963). 



(genus allied to JI'NCEJE.) 



4 ? FLAGELLARIA, Linn. 



Perianth 6-parted, coloured, persistent ; the inner segments 

 larger. Stamens 6, hypogynous. Ovary 3-eelled, sessile ; 

 ovules 1 in each cell, basilar, sessile, auatropous ; stigmas 3, 

 sessile, filiform, spreading. Drupe pea-like, crowned by the 

 stigmas, 1-seeded, with a fleshy epicarp and bony endocarp. 

 Embryo minute, in floury albumen. — Kunth, I.e. p. 370. 



F. Indica, common in the tropics of the Eastern hemisphere, occiu's at 

 Natal, " wliere it is used to fix thatch," Gerrard. It is perennial, witli a 

 scrambling stem, the branches furnished at base with imbricating scales. 

 Leaves alternate, lanceolate, nerved, ending in a spiral tendril, sheathing at 

 base. Flowers in terminal panicles, small, often luiisexual. 



OuDEi: CXXXVII. COMMELYNE^. 



Perianth G-parted, segments in 2 rows ; outer calyx herba- 

 ceous, inner petaloid. Stamens G or fewer, hypogynous or 

 on the liase of the segments ; anthers of some filaments 



